Zoraptera

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Zoraptera
Familiae: Zorotypidae – Spiralizoridae

Species incertae sedis: Zorotypus congensis – Zorotypus javanicus – Zorotypus lawrencei – Zorotypus leleupi – Zorotypus longicercatus – Zorotypus sechellensis – Zorotypus swezeyi

Name

Zoraptera Silvestri, 1913: 195

References

Primary references

Silvestri, F. 1913. Descrizione di un nuovo ordine di insetti. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici 7: 193–209. BHL. [page 195: Internet Archive, BHL]

Additional references

Hubbard, M.D. 1990. A catalog of the order Zoraptera (Insecta). Insecta Mundi 4: 49–66. PDF.
Kukalová-Peck, J. & Peck, S.B. 1993. Zoraptera wing structures: evidence for new genera and relationship with the blattoid orders (Insecta: Blattoneoptera). Systematic Entomology 18(4): 333–350. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00670.x . Reference page.
Kočárek, P., Horká, I. & Kundrata, R. 2020. Molecular Phylogeny and Infraordinal Classification of Zoraptera (Insecta). Insects 11(1): 51. DOI: 10.3390/insects11010051 . Reference page.
Kočárek, P. & Hu, F.-S. 2023. An Immature Dermapteran Misidentified as an Adult Zorapteran: The Case of Formosozoros newi Chao & Chen, 2000. Insects 14(1): 53. DOI: 10.3390/insects14010053 . Reference page. [removed Formosozoros and Formosozoros newi from Zoraptera]
Mashimo, Y., Matsumura, Y., Machida, R., Dallai, R., Gottardo, M., Yoshizawa, K., Friedrich, F., Wipfler, B. & Beutel, R.G. 2014. 100 years Zoraptera—a phantom in insect evolution and the history of its investigation. Insect Systematics & Evolution 45(4): 371–393. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-45012110 Reference page.
Wipfler, B. & Pass, G. 2014. Antennal heart morphology supports relationship of Zoraptera with polyneopteran insects. Systematic Entomology 39(4): 800–805. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12088 Reference page.

Links

Zoraptera Species File

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Bodelyys
Deutsch: Bodenläuse
English: Zoropterans
eesti: Tsorapterilised
magyar: Pillásszárnyú tetvek
日本語: ジュズヒゲムシ目 (絶翅目)
한국어: 민벌레목 (절시목, 결시목)
polski: Glebiki
中文: 缺翅目

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